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(384) D.2911 - Painting camouflage on a Tank
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > John Warwick Brooke > (384) D.2911 - Painting camouflage on a Tank |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74546948 |
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| Description | The picture is taken from within a muddy yard. There is no particular background and so there is very little context to the picture. The back end of another tank is just visible to the left of the photograph. Three soldiers are standing at the side of a tank. They are wearing caps and uniform shirts but they have overalls and dungarees on instead of the rest of their uniform. They are holding buckets of paint and daubing the side of the tank from the top down. The tank itself dominates the picture although it is more than half covered over with a tarpaulin. Tanks were first developed during World War I, mainly by Britain and France. Although they were fairly cumbersome and unwieldy at first they soon evolved into a useful weapon to smash through enemy lines. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Painting camouflage on a Tank.'] |
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| Description | John Warwick Brooke, of the Topical Press Agency, was the second British official war photographer to go to the Western Front in 1916. The demands placed on he and his colleague, Ernest Brooks, were heavy. They had to take as many photographs as possible, with as much variety as possible, a difficult task for two men covering an army of over two million. Despite this, Warwick Brooke managed to take what would become some of the most memorable images of World War I. As an officially appointed photographer, Warwick Brooke was assigned to the Western Front to follow the progress of the British Army. During his time there, between 1916 and 1918, Warwick Brooke is estimated to have taken over 4,000 photographs. |
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| Description | Black-and-white photographs mainly of the Western Front during the First World War. Official British war photographers took many of them for propaganda purposes. Unless otherwise stated, titles are the photographs' original captions. From the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928). The Haig Papers also contain Douglas Haig’s diaries. |
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| Shelfmark | Acc.3155 |
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